{"product_id":"packy-jim-folklore-and-worldview-on-the-irish-border-paperback-softback-9780299308940","title":"Packy Jim; Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299308940","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePacky Jim\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFolklore and Worldview on the Irish Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRay Cashman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299308940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 August 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 25 black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSkillfully presents and analyzes stories naturally emerging from conversation and expressing a worldview that is both communal and formed by unique life experience. ... Highly recommended.\"\"  - \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Draws on interviews with Packy Jim McGrath, a Donegal storyteller who grew up on a smuggling route on the border of the Republic and Northern Ireland.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Octogenarian bachelor Packy Jim emerges here as both typical and singular, a barometer of continuity and change. McGrath's resilience, dignity, and strong sense of self manifest clearly in his stories, which locate him both in the technological consumerist future and in the primordial self-sufficient past. Ray Cashman's sharp and sympathetic observation delivers a classic ethnography that stakes a major claim for folkloristic studies as cutting-edge humanities research.\"\" - Lillis  Laoire,National University of Ireland–Galway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A brilliant testament to the ethnographer's art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an 'ordinary' person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday life along the Irish border.\"\"  - James P. Leary, author of \u003ci\u003eFolksongs of Another America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGrowing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrath regularly heard the news, songs, and stories of men and women who stopped to pass the time until cover of darkness. In his early years, he says, he was all ears—but now it is his turn to talk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRay Cashman, who has been interviewing McGrath for more than fifteen years, demonstrates how Packy Jim embellishes daily conversation with stories of ghosts and fairies, heroic outlaws and hateful landlords. Such folklore is a boundless resource that he uses to come to grips with the past and present, this world and the next. His stories reveal an intricate worldview that is both idiosyncratic and shared—a testament to individual intelligence and talent, and a window into Irish vernacular culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface: Packy Jim Is Your Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on Language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Using Tradition, Constructing a Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Person and Place, Life and Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Authority and Rules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Power and Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Place, History, and Morality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Place, the Supernatural, and Cosmology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Belief and Skepticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Community in a World of Limited Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Worldview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Real Folklore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Transcription Style\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on the Recitations, Songs, and Traditional Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on the Chapters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternational Motif Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMigratory Legend Type Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520709849368,"sku":"9780299308940","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/packy-jim-folklore-and-worldview-on-the-irish-border-paperback-softback-9780299308940","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}